Electrically-heated bake-oven



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Application efi Sekte-*dier :212, 192i). Serial 'e. 2,485.

To .all whom t may conceive:

Be it known that l, aires C. W'oonsozt, e citizen of the United States, and a resident of Mansfield, in the county o Richland and State of `Glade, have invented a new useful Improvement in Electrically-Heated Balre-vens, of which the following is a, specication.

My invention relates to electricallydieated apparatus and particularly to electrieal heated reel-type bake ovens, and it bas for its object to provide a. neuY form and location of an electrical heating element for such an oven.

Heretofore, tbe beating elementhas been placed at or near the bottom oi' the casing; and tbe resulting convection currents of air were relied upon to heat evenly the entire volume or the oven and also to properly baite the articles of food placed therein. Under such conditions of heating', there is danger of overheating the bottom ot an article placed on the revolving tray and ot burning` the sides of the articles, while the top thereof may not be sufficiently baked.

In practising my invention, l provide an electric heating element, substantially circular or ovate in lateral cross-section, located inside of the path ot travel of the trays of a reel-type bake oven. The heating element, which may be of any desired construction, as regards the -form of resistor, is suitably mounted on the revolving shaft inside of the trays, and is provided with means for conducting the current thereto, from a point outside of the casino'.

in the single sheet ot drawings,

Figure l is a View, partly in cross-section and partly in side elevation, of a reel-type bake oven provided with a heating element embodying my invention, and v Fig. 2 is a detail view of a portion ol the oven showing the method ot connecting the resistor to the electrical supply circuit.

A casingrv l, which is shown diagrammatically only in Fig. l, may be made up in any suitable or desired manner as is usual in such structures. It is here intended to represent the casingr as comprising suitable inner and outer Walls between which may be placedl heaeinsulating material. A suitable door 2 is provided through which the materiai to be batted may be placed inside oit-he oven or removed therefrom. Suitable supporting members 3 are indicated as being presided to support the casing;l l on a oor. i shaft is provided and may operate in suit... le bearing members 5, as shown in Fig. 2. Y L plurality ot' reel arms 6 is provided, suitably spaced apart upon the shaft 4 and secured thereto so that the arms may rotate with the shaft when the same is driven by some suitable means (not shown). plu

ty or" shelves or tra-ys 2" is provided, suitily connected to the reel arms 6 so that they will retain their substantially horirental position throughout the rotation of tbe sliat and oi the reel arms.

:'i plurality of suitable resistor-supporting trames 8,'tvliich may be either substantially circular or crate in lateral cross-section, are provided and are so arranged as to rest upon, and be carried by, the rotatable shaft 4. Suitable resistor-supporting members 9 are provided and may be of any desired forni, but are here shown as comprising refractory members 9 substantially rectangular in crosssection and having' a number of parallelextending` resistor-supporting grooves l0 in the outer tace thereof. A suitable resistor may be located in these grooves, and electrica-l connection may be made by means of suitably insulated slip rings l1 mounted on the shaft and stationary contact members 12 operatively engaging the slip rings il. rhese slip rings l1 may be electrically connected to a second set oit' slip rings 13 located on tbe outside otI the casing' l, and connection may be made to a suitable source or" electrical energy by means ot stationary brushes la. lt the frames 8 are ovate in lateral cross-sectiom theyv are intended to be stationary in the casing l. if the frames S are substantially circular in lateral crosssection, they may rotate with the shaft- #t and, in this case, the slip rings l1 and the Contact members l2 are not required.

:t will be seen by reference to the position ot the various trays 7,4 as shown in Fig. l, that the area inclosed by the trays and their suspension points is substantially ovate in form and that the general lateral contour ot my improved electrical. heater may also be substantially ovate 1n Jtoi-rn.v l may provide 

